Segregated Trajectories, Isolated Lives: Venezuelan Migrants in Metropolitan Lima

We ask about the logic behind the residential trajectories of migrant population and their effect in the composition of their social bonds. We introduce the case of Lima, the city with the largest number of Venezuelan migrants in the continent, where we collected a total of 37 interviews (27 to Venezuelans, 10 to Peruvians for the aim of comparison). We found that the residential trajectories of migrants are strongly linked to the locations of their jobs. However, since they change jobs often, they also change their places of residence. These residential changes and their intense job schedules, make their social bonds to be temporary, having to re-make them with each residential change. As a consequence, immigrant population's segregation is not only spatial, but supposes encapsulated lives, with few permanent ties and several disposable ties along their trajectories.